Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 10, Page 96

Newspaper article from 1961 with an account by Irving S. Rogers of the Helltown community that sprang up after the Long Point houses were floated back over to the mainland. Helltown was beyond Wood End near the present day Herring Cove Beach. Small shacks sprung up and enabled dorymen to launch from the beach. Treacherous and diffcult work, these dorymen landed fish and mended equipment and walked both ways back and forth to their homes in town. Photo of horse drawn cart that took fish from the dories back into town for shipment to NYC.

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Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Dories (boats), Fishermen, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea